Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-28
''If be lifted up, will draw all men unto
me-" As the sun draws up the drops OF
morning dew, 20 the Sun of Righteousness
exhales the tears Of repentance.
Come

III Dc tlltcu up, Il Will uIdW aii hSh eAso
me-" As the sun draws up the drops OF
morning dew, 30 the Sun of Righteousness
exhales the tears Of repentance.
Come
THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE
into the ark" Be sure that you bring
your husband and wife with you. How
would Noah have felt il, when he heard
the rain pattering on the roof Of the ark,
he knew that his wife was outside in the
storm? No; she went with him. And yet
some Of YOU are on the ship outward
bound" Tor heaven, but your companion
is unsheltered. You remember the day
when the marriage ring was set. Nothing
has yet been able to break il. Sickness
came and the finger shrank, but the ring
staid on. The twain stood alone above a
child's grave, and the dark mouth of the
tomb swallowed up thousand hopes; but
the ring dropped not into the open grave.
Days of poverty came, and the hand did
many n hard days work; but the rub
bing of the work against the ring
only made it shine brighter. Shall that
ring ever be lost? Will the iron clang of
the sepulchre gate crush it forever.
pray God that you who have been mar
ried en- earth may be together in heaven.
Oh! by the quiet bliss of your earthly
home; by the babes cradle; by all the
vows Of that day when you started life
together, beg you to see TO it that you
both get into the ark
Come in, and bring your wife or your
husband with you-not by fretting about
religion or ding-donging them abont re-
ligiOn, but by consistent life, and by
compelling prayer which shall bring the
throne of God down into your bedroom.
Better live in the smallest house in Brook
lyn and get into heaven than live fifty
years in the finest house on Madison
Square, and wake up at last and find that
one of you, for all eternity, is outside the
ark. Go home tonight; lock the door of
your room; take up the Bible aud read it
together, and then kneel down and COM
mend your souls to Him who has watched
you all these years; and before you rise
there will he a 1uttering Of wings over
your head, angel crying to angel, BE
hold, they pray"
But this does not include all your
family.
BRING THE CHILDREN Too.
God bless the dear children What would
our homes he without them? We may
have done much for them. They have
done more for us. What q salve for a
wounded heart there is in the soft palm Of
n child's hand Did harp or flute ever
have such music as there il in child's
goodnight" From our coarse, rough
life, the angels of God are often driven
back; but who comes into the nursery
without feeling that angels are lowering
around? They who die in infancy 20
into glory, but you are expecting your
children to grow up in this world. Is II
not a question, then, that rings through
all the corridors, and windings, and
heights, and depths of your soul, what is
to become of your sons and daughters for
time and eternity. "On you say, 81
mean to see that they have good manners. "
Very well. 81 mean TO dress them well,
if | have myself TO go shabby" Very
good. 81 shall give them an education,
and shall leave them fortune" Very
well. But is that all? Don't YOU mean
to take them into the ark? Don't you
know that the storm is coming, and that
out OF Christ there is no safety no pardon?
no hope? no heaven?
How TO get them in?
GO IN YOURSELF.
II Noah had staid out, do you not suppose
that his SOUS, Shem. Ham, and Japhet,
would have staid out? Your sons and
daughters will be apt to do Just ~ you do.
Reject Christ yourself and the probability
is that your children will reject Him.
An account was taken 0i the religious
condition of families in certain district.
In the families of pious parents, two
thirds of the children were Christians.
In the families where the parents were
ungOdly, only one-twelfth Of the children
were Christians. Responsible rs you are
for their temporal existence, yon are also
for their eternity. Which way
will you take them? out into the deluge,
or into the ark? Have you ever made one
earnest prayer for their immortal souls?
What will you say in the Judgment, when
God asks: Where il George or Henry,
or Frank, or Mary, or Anna? Where are
those precious souls whose interests !
committed into your hands,
A dying son said Ia his father: Father,
you gave me an education, and good man
ners, and everything that the world could
do for me; but father, you never told
me how to die, and now my soul IL going
ont i'll the darkness
Go home and erect family altar. You
may break down in your prayer. But
never mind, God will take what you
mean, whether you express It intelligibly
or not. Bring all your house into the
ark. Ii there one sOn whom you have
given up? IL be 30 dissipated that You
have stopped counselling and praying?
Give him mp? How dare yon give him
up? Did God ever give thee up? Whilst
thou has a single articulation Of speech
left, cease not to pray for the return Of
that prOdigal. He may even now be
on the beach at Hong Kong or
Madras, meditating n return 10 his
fathers house Give him mp? Never
give him mp. Has God promised 10 hear
thy prayer only to mock thee? IL il not
too late.
In st. Panl's, London, there Is
4 wHIsPERING-GALLRRY
A voice uttered most feebly at one side Of
the gallery is heard distinctly ut the OPP
pOsite side, great distance of. SO, every
word Of earnest prayer goes all around the
earth. and makes heaven whispering gal
Iery. Go into the ark-not 10 sit down,
but 10 stand in the door and hail until all
the family come in. Aged Noah, where is
Japhet ? David, where is AbaalOm
Hannah, where is Samuel Bring them
in through Christ, the door. Would IL
not he pleasant To spend eternity with our
families Gladder than Christmas or
festival will be the reunion,
if we get all our family in the ark. Which
OF them can We spare out Of heaven ?
OS ONE or THE LATE sTRAMERs
there were father and two daughters
They seemed extremely poor.
A benevolent gentleman stepped up TO the
poor man 10 profer some form Of relief,
and said: "YOu seem 10 be very poor, sir. :"
Poor, SIR" replied the man, ''if there's
poorer man than Inc troubling the world,
God pity both Of usl' Il will take one
OF your children and adopt II, if you say
%. 1 think il would be great relief 10
YOU" "A WHAT" said the poor man.
IA relief Would IL be a relief 10 have